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Novo Nordisk Data Breach Tied to Stolen GitHub Access Tokens

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Novo Nordisk Data Breach Tied to Stolen GitHub Access Tokens

Cyber extortion group FulcrumSec exploited hardcoded credentials found in Novo Nordisk's public-facing infrastructure to access the pharmaceutical company's systems. The breach, part of a campaign called "Hardcoded Horrorshow", demonstrates the group's focus on extracting cloud-based data rather than targeting endpoints.

Why it matters: Organizations that expose credentials in repositories, configuration files, or public infrastructure face immediate extortion risk; practitioners must scan and rotate hardcoded secrets from version control and deployment pipelines.

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